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MOSCATI, Marquis

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Editorial Description

F. M., self-styled "Professor of the Greek, Latin, Italian and French languages," exiled in London in the 1830s; formerly a soldier; regarded himself as a literary figure; referred to in PHREN J, 9 (1834/6): 288, as the "disgraced prosecutor of The Times newspaper"; wrote satirically against phrenology in the 1800s in Efemeridi Letterairedi Venezia and in other journals; declined to meet GALL in Heidelberg, but met him in Paris and studied under him; a head reading by DEVILLE convinced him of the truth of phrenology; active in the LONDON PHREN SOC in 1832 but had a falling out with ELLIOTSON in 1834; like ELLIOTSON he lauded GALL but had only disdain for SPURZHEIM.

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

• 812.1 — 812.1 "History and Conversion of an Anti-Phrenologist [i.e., Moscati; address to the LONDON PHREN SOC, 5 Nov 1832]," LANCET, 10 Nov 1832: 213-15.
• 812.2 — 812.2 "On the Antiquity of Phrenology [paper to LONDON PHREN SOC, 19 Nov 1832]," LANCET, 1 Dec 1832: 317-19.
• 812.3 — 812.3 "On the Character and Phrenological Organization of Dr. Gall [paper read to LONDON PHREN SOC 4 Feb 1833]," LAN- CET, 22 June 1833: 399-403.
• 812.4 — 812.4 "Biographical Paper on the Character and Phrenological Organization of Dr. Spurzheim--to London Phrenological Society," LANCET, 12 Jan 1833: 493-8.

Editorial Information

812. MOSCATI, Marquis, F. M., self-styled "Professor of the Greek,
Latin, Italian and French languages," exiled in London in the 1830s;
formerly a soldier; regarded himself as a literary figure; referred to
in PHREN J, 9 (1834/6): 288, as the "disgraced prosecutor of The
Times newspaper"; wrote satirically against phrenology in the 1800s
in Efemeridi Letterairedi Venezia and in other journals; declined to
meet GALL in Heidelberg, but met him in Paris and studied under
him; a head reading by DEVILLE convinced him of the truth of phrenology; active in the LONDON PHREN SOC in 1832 but had a falling out with ELLIOTSON in 1834; like ELLIOTSON he lauded GALL but
had only disdain for SPURZHEIM.